Keep the Ghost Light on

Stick Season - Noah Kahan

Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

Found this gem in the comments.

can someone hire me as a lighthouse keeper. my grip on reality is soooo stable and i will behave so normally under conditions of extreme isolation. and i promise i wont try to fuck the light

Frogs have always been one of my favourite subjects to draw 🐸🖤

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

I think most people would benefit from reflecting on how this might be true for them

Sometimes people bitch about media, both fiction and nonfiction, that they think "humanizes" bad people, especially bigots fascists Nazis et cetera. And I'm just like. Hey. Hey. The problem is. They ARE human. HUMANS did that. Your next door neighbor could do that. Your grandma could do that. You could do that.

"No I'm a good person" why? Because you've gotten lucky and not seen propaganda yet that perfectly hit your buttons? Because you had people to correct you when you fucked up? Idk man I don't think we're all so different from the bad people. We're all just people.

Reminding ourselves of our shared humanity with terrible people does NOT serve to justify their actions. It serves to remind us that the seeds of what happened to them could get into us as well, or might already have. It reminds us to be vigilant and interrogate the hatred inside us.

If you convince yourself that you're just an Inherently Good Person who would never believe hateful things well. Now any little hateful thing that makes its way inside you undetected is never going to be interrogated. It will be left to grow undisturbed.

If you remember that those things can get into anyone, you know to look out for them, and weed them out when they appear, and take the criticism when others point them out in you. So remember, that could have been you. If you forget, maybe it will be.

Yeahhhh, when I first got on Tumblr I was an inch away from buying into transphobia. (This is where I yell about how that was more than ten years ago. If Matt wanted the terfs go e, they would be.) Luckily a trans woman told me in detail why I was wrong and then blocked me. (I was, hand to God, asking questions because I was confused. This did not save me from being the last straw for her.) I don't remember who she was but I'm grateful to her every day.

Oakoak

Holy shit that's so cool

Finally “do you love the colour of the sky” got compressed for our convenience

This is now my favorite photo

The Main six Baldur's Gate Companions

gentle reminder: you are very capable and I’m excited for your future

slightly less gentle reminder: you do have to work for it

*annoyed but resigned moan of frustration*

cant talk rn obsessed over the design concept of this 2017 production of pinocchio as a stage play where pinocchio is the only character played by a human actor and the rest of the cast are portrayed as puppets ,,,

like. how insanely poetic is this . you are a boy and you are made of wood but you know so entirely that you are more than wood, you are as human as anyone made of flesh and bone and it's not your fault that you came into the world with sap running through your veins instead of blood. and your entire life you are searching the world for what it means to be human but the dramatic irony of it all is that none of them know how to be human either. you keep reaching out for humanity and they seem so big and powerful but they are just puppets of a greater design too performing for an audience you cannot see. and whether you know it or not you are more human than any of them even if they are convinced you are just wood and paint and magic. im on the floor .im losing my mind over here. gimme a second guys hold on. wait a minute guys wait a goddamn minute like. wahta a good fucking design concept. head in hands !

having a snuggable animal in your home is like a constant minigame of ancestral persistence hunting, every morning this beast is getting yoinked from various parts of the house to indulge our daily ritual of bringing him back to bed for cuddling purposes. im like the doom guy in hell meme but instead of ronald reagan im looking for my cat

is this anything

yeah, across the spiderverse was pretty good

"Hush now, hide, all you little ones Rush now, into the middle of nowhere Singing and laughter will die

Dreamless sleep, follows the Nowhere King When his kingdom comes, darkness is nigh

Quiet, crawl to the in-between Silent, secretive feeling Of fearsome hatred that reaches the skies

You will bring joy to the Nowhere King When he sees the light leaving your eyes" - Oil painting of the Nowhere King from centaurworld, the cute bubbly cartoon right? I love his design.

So ... How about that silly, brightly colored, kids' show about singing, whimsical animal-people?